The Patient Participation Group (PPG) is a small number of volunteer patients, cross-sector, who bring the patient view to the Pennygate Health Centre. Our aim is to encourage a positive relationship between the wider patient community and the surgery staff, both medical and administrative.

The patient members of the group meet regularly to discuss matters from a patient perspective. The full PPG including Dr Nathu meet to discuss areas of mutual interest and plan how, by working together, we can help promote health awareness and communication.

The group has gone from strength to strength over the last 20 years and was one of the first PPGs to be formed in the area. Fund raising activities include a registered charity, monthly bingo and regular quizzes.

Current members include:

Dr A Nathu – Honorary Member

Mr P Scarlett – Chairman

Renzo Gheradi – Vice Chairman

Maureen Scantlebury – Treasurer

Alison Baker – Secretary

Dr Brenda Wickham

Stacey Edgington

Hazel Wright

Sharon Morton

Robert Blackadder

If you are interested in helping us at the PPL, through volunteering at the shop or helping us run the bingo sessions, please feel free to contact us by email to SLCCG.Pennygate@nhs.net or telephone 01775 710133.

If you are happy for us to contact you occasionally by email please click the link below to open the sign-up form and complete all the fields.

We will be in touch shortly after we receive your form. Please note that no medical information or questions will be responded to.

Many thanks for your assistance

The information you supply us will be used lawfully, in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998. The Data Protection Act 1998 gives you the right to know what information is held about you and sets out rules to make sure that this information is handled properly.

PPG Reports

Pennygate Patient Link Charity Shop

The Pennygate Patient Link (PPL) was founded in 1994 to improve the equipment and facilities at Pennygate Health Centre for the benefit of both staff & patients. The PPL Charity Shop subsequently opened to help raise funds to support the PPL. The charity shop, together with monthly bingos, are both run by volunteers who freely give their time to support the charity.

How Can You Help?

For the Pennygate Patient Link to be successful, the charity shop needs your support. By donating your cast offs and no longer required items the shop can recycle them and in doing so raise much needed funds to support our charity.

So PLEASE could you let us have ANY items you no longer require. The shop will be happy to receive clothes, shoes, household items, linen, china, glass, bric-a-brac, books, CD's, DVD and toys etc., anything else that you have that you no longer need!

Why not call into the shop and see if you can pick up a a bargain. We are at 42 Winsover Road, next to the railway crossing opposite Aldi.